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...first black TV-news anchor. After graduation, she took an anchor position in Baltimore, Md., but lacked the detachment to be a reporter. She cried when a story was sad, laughed when she misread a word. Instead, she was given an early-morning talk show. She had found her medium. In 1984 she moved on to be the host of A.M. Chicago, which became The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was syndicated in 1986--when Winfrey was 32--and soon overtook Donahue as the nation's top-rated talk show...
Springfield boasts a teeming gallery of low- and medium-lifes--surely the densest, funniest supporting cast since the '40s farces of Preston Sturges. The church, school and pub are places of refuge and anxiety. But home, 742 North Evergreen Terrace, is where the show's heart is, where everyone's despair is muted by familial love. Homer (whom the writers hold in a sort of amazed contempt) bumbles into some egregious fix. Marge fusses and copes. Lisa sublimates her rancor by playing her sax. And Bart is...Bart...
Despite such crushing disappointments, his output was always prodigious, prolific, protean, profound and even, in his self-portraits, prognathous. An artist of staggering versatility, Glimp refused to be chained to one medium. He turned out paintings, novels, plays, operas, ballets, film scripts, poems, TV commercials, recipes, roadside billboards, monogrammed handkerchiefs, rebuses, a surrealist comic strip titled Emil the Talking Bladder, and the gigantic, brightly colored mounds that he wittily called Alps--so massive that the plaster of Paris used to construct them had to be poured over four-story buildings, often trapping the hapless occupants inside...
Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...
...Joyce, who nevertheless created his own Web-based novel, Twelve Blue, is not discouraged. He believes the forking paths of computer narrative will help some artist somewhere create a new medium that is truer to life than anything that's come before: "People have a complex sense of their own lives, which isn't often accounted for in popular art--they're capable of very complex relationships. New media have to be faulted--ironically!--for the failure to express that complexity...